第6章 Service Provider Interfaces (SPI)

Red Hat Single Sign-On is designed to cover most use-cases without requiring custom code, but we also want it to be customizable. To achieve this Red Hat Single Sign-On has a number of Service Provider Interfaces (SPI) for which you can implement your own providers.

6.1. Implementing an SPI

To implement an SPI you need to implement its ProviderFactory and Provider interfaces. You also need to create a service configuration file.

For example, to implement the Theme Selector SPI you need to implement ThemeSelectorProviderFactory and ThemeSelectorProvider and also provide the file META-INF/services/org.keycloak.theme.ThemeSelectorProviderFactory.

Example ThemeSelectorProviderFactory:

package org.acme.provider;

import ...

public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory {

    @Override
    public ThemeSelectorProvider create(KeycloakSession session) {
        return new MyThemeSelectorProvider(session);
    }

    @Override
    public void init(Config.Scope config) {
    }

    @Override
    public void postInit(KeycloakSessionFactory factory) {
    }

    @Override
    public void close() {
    }

    @Override
    public String getId() {
        return "myThemeSelector";
    }
}
注記

Keycloak creates a single instance of provider factories which makes it possible to store state for multiple requests. Provider instances are created by calling create on the factory for each request so these should be light-weight object.

Example ThemeSelectorProvider:

package org.acme.provider;

import ...

public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider {

    public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) {
    }


    @Override
    public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) {
        return "my-theme";
    }

    @Override
	public void close() {
    }
}

Example service configuration file (META-INF/services/org.keycloak.theme.ThemeSelectorProviderFactory):

org.acme.provider.MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory

You can configure your provider through standalone.xml, standalone-ha.xml, or domain.xml.

For example by adding the following to standalone.xml:

<spi name="themeSelector">
    <provider name="myThemeSelector" enabled="true">
        <properties>
            <property name="theme" value="my-theme"/>
        </properties>
    </provider>
</spi>

Then you can retrieve the config in the ProviderFactory init method:

public void init(Config.Scope config) {
    String themeName = config.get("theme");
}

Your provider can also lookup other providers if needed. For example:

public class MyThemeSelectorProvider implements ThemeSelectorProvider {

    private KeycloakSession session;

    public MyThemeSelectorProvider(KeycloakSession session) {
        this.session = session;
    }

    @Override
    public String getThemeName(Theme.Type type) {
        return session.getContext().getRealm().getLoginTheme();
    }
}

6.1.1. Show info from your SPI implementation in admin console

Sometimes it is useful to show additional info about your Provider to a Red Hat Single Sign-On administrator. You can show provider build time information (eg. version of custom provider currently installed), current configuration of the provider (eg. url of remote system your provider talks to) or some operational info (average time of response from remote system your provider talks to). Red Hat Single Sign-On admin console provides Server Info page to show this kind of information.

To show info from your provider it is enough to implement org.keycloak.provider.ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory interface in your ProviderFactory.

Example implementation for MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory from previous example:

package org.acme.provider;

import ...

public class MyThemeSelectorProviderFactory implements ThemeSelectorProviderFactory, ServerInfoAwareProviderFactory {
    ...

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getOperationalInfo() {
        Map<String, String> ret = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        ret.put("theme-name", "my-theme");
        return ret;
    }
}